In case you don't go back to the raw cookie dough discussion, I wanted to let you know that Salmonella can indeed be inside the intact shell, not just outside. I explain it in the discussion, but briefly, the ovaries of the chicken are infected and they pass it into the egg long before the shell ever forms. It wasn't something they ever used to know about, but they now routinely test laying hens for ovarian bacteria because of this.

Ugh! I'm not a fan of moving! At least you move into furnished apartments, that must be a little helpful at least. I'm ready to stop moving around and just settle down somewhere though. Someday!

Things here are going pretty well. This time of year is always super busy for us. My oldest daughter's last day of school is on Thursday and her birthday is on Saturday. This coming week is going to be super busy for us, but should be good. My husband and I are going on a little getaway, so I'm excited for that!

I hope you didn't think I was being snotty about the Salmonella info? I am a science person, too, so I knew the info already, I wasn't running around trying to fact check everyone.

Can you believe all this? I saw your discussion for contact info, mine is on my profile, but will out here, too:
wickedwahine@hush dot com I would live to stay in touch, but I hope we will still meet on the site.

Good to see you around! Did you submit a reconsideration form? (If you did, did you get approved? I was approved, thank God, though I have to wait till they send it to me "in coming weeks." I thought of you just yesterday, swear to God! I saw these brain shaped ice cubes! Well, it was a mold to make them and I though of sending you the link, but decided not to bother you. Now, I am regretting not at least copying down the info for you! Nice to see you here!

There aren't many people still around from before, but those who are certainly remember you! (I suspect there are some occasional lurkers about as well and maybe they will speak up at some point). It's just that things are so slow there is not much for most to do here, so they don't check in as often as we used to. You can easily go days without anything missed on the forums. Remember how before you could check in the morning and then later at night and you could have missed a lot? Those days are gone, but a lot of the bullshit is gone, too, so there are some things to be grateful for

I don't know if you have kept up at all, but there is now no admin we can contact and management doesn't reply to our questions (editors -both of us, lol-, and mentors are on their own). They let Stormy go this past winter, Feb? I think and no one replaced her. We can submit support tickets, but the answer person isn't that familiar with the workings here, nor is anyone else. Anyone who knew about the community side of things and the day to day workings of it, is gone without replacement and so we drift along on our own. I kinda thought by now they would have trashed it all, but I am glad this phenomenal resource of reviews is still available and we can still submit new ones. If you have any questions about anything, feel free to ask me and again, welcome back. I am really excited to see you!